Artemisia Landscape Design

Kristin Faurest



principal designer and consultant, member, American Society of Landscape Architects and American Community Gardening Association Board of Directors


Contact details:

Artemisia Landscape Design
5/a Margit krt.,
Budapest,
Hungary 1024

Telephone: +36 20 958-25-45
email: kristin@artemisiadesign.com

Imaginative, energetic landscape designer with international experience in design and university-level teaching. Precise, thorough project manager with excellent manual and computer-aided design skills, extensive horticultural knowledge and experience with participatory design. Excellent writing and presentation skills. Past experience as journalist and Peace Corps volunteer, background in art and architectural history.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary. Adjunct lecturer, 2001-present. Created and introduced new elective, "Community-Supported Green Spaces," into curriculum. Lecture on community gardens, social justice, participatory design, brownfield rehabilitation and public green space design. Lead charrettes for community design projects.

Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences, Freising, Germany. Guest lecturer, spring 2009.

GreenLeaf Program, Clean Air Action Group, Budapest. Consultant, 2007-2008. Provided designs, lectures and consultations to residential blocks, schools and other grant recipients of $800,000 community greening program.

Artemisia Landscape Design. Director and designer, 2002-present.
Design private and common gardens, consult for community garden organization, lead participatory design projects and cooperate with municipal authorities to revitalize historic gardens.

Recent private and corporate clients include:

• Roma Parliament, Budapest. Courtyard redevelopent project.
• City of Budapest, Nehru Part revitalization project
• Margit ház courtyard garden, Budapest District II
• Keleti Karoly street courtyard garden, Budapest District II
• Madach Block residents, Budapest District VII
• TBWA Advertising agency, Budapest District XI
• Szabadka residential landscape, Pomaz, Hungary
• Kilpadi residential landscape, Budapest District II
• Brady residential landscape, Budapest District II
• Domokos residential landscape, Budapest District II
• Tatra street courtyard garden, Budapest District XIII
• Roma community, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Budapest Social Services Homeless Shelter, Budapest District XIII
• Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development, Budapest
• Studio Metropolitana Urban Planning and Research Center, Budapest
• Victory garden, Greater Grace International School, Budapest District II
• Bird-friendly garden, British International School of Budapest, District III
• Learning Landscape, American International School of Budapest

Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden horticultural outreach program, Cape Town, South Africa. Outreach team member, 2003. Worked in township school gardens.

Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London. Arboretum staff member, 2002. Responsible for maintenance of Japanese landscape.

Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Louisville, Kentucky. Researcher, 2000. Documented lost garden, assessed community interest, wrote treatment proposal.

EDUCATION

• Project for Public Spaces Placemaker training, spring 2008.
• Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Corvinus University, Budapest. Ph.D, 2007. Summa cum laude.
• School of Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, 2002.
• Central European University, Budapest. M.A. in modern European history, 1997.
• University of Louisville, B.A., art history and literature, 1990. Magna cum laude.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• American Community Gardening Association, Community Greening Review, guest editor, spring 2009.
• "Greening the Courtyards of Budapest." Poster presentation at Landscape - Great Idea! conference, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, April 2009.
• "The Tavaszmezõ Artists Garden." Paper presented at Alternative Culture(s) and Urban Space International Conference, Central European University, Budapest, April 2009.
• Project for Public Spaces: How to Turn a Place Around. Revisions and case studies for Hungarian-language edition of internationally-acclaimed public-space design textbook, October 2008.
• "Restoration of the Gödöllõ Palace Gardens." Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, July 2008.
• Unprotected Heritage - Residential Buildings of the Jewish Quarter. Budapest City Hall, 2008. Revisions to English edition.
• "Sustainable Neighborhood Revitalization Through Community Gardens." In: Urban Green Book, published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the European Commission's Urban Green as a Key for Sustainable Cities program, spring 2008.
• "Community gardens: A New Kind of School for the Innovative Landscape Architect." Paper and poster presentation, European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) annual conference, September 2002.
• "Urban Revitalization through Community Gardens." Landscape Architecture quarterly, Budapest, Hungary, November 2001.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Proficiency in AutoCad, all Microsoft Office programs
• Advanced knowledge of film and digital photography
• Fluency in Hungarian, basic French

References and portfolio presentation available upon request.